So with suddenly days of no pressure on me I'm discovering this, er, (Welsh?) TV show. I suppose it helps to be a reader, but I just gotta get me a copy of that book. A TV show about books. What else was I born to produce?

Tis' the season to ..... binge watch great TV of course! Its the end of the year, and 2016 turned out to be the best year ever for great TV shows. When I watch a show, I rate it and add it to my http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031955356/ list, ranking the various shows. Advantage viewers looking for just the right show to binge on next to all the sweets, gifts, lights and other seasonal stuff. Top shows this year:

A few episodes into Stranger Things, and I'm thinking I'll wish they had concluded it before I started watching lol. At least I think they'll be doing it seasonally? It's pretty damn good regardless. Pretty original.

Such an amazing thing that as these shows follow the lead of the original 'The Simpsons' to push the envelope 'The Simpsons' itself has become so insipid and politically correct as to be the worst thing on TV.

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After watching last night, had to raise The Expanse up in my Best TV Shows of 2017 listing. Really blown away by the quality of the CGI and plausible story line of space in near future solar system dominated by outposts and mining. The two episode show saw war between Earth and Mars averted, barely.

Perhaps I'm all too fascinated by low budget attempts at something nonHollywood. Or maybe you'll like it. The first video is their shoot back in high school with only 2/3rds complete, but they edited this together. Several years later comes their little webseries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotatio ... G7D_j6l9Qs

So these people fall all over themselves to make these halfbaked 'Star Trek' fanboy shows. Meanwhile, be it college students, effects houses, whomever, they promote themselves with these very stylish shorts that are rather short on story but sure look good. The fanboys need to take some inspiration there. The fanboys are also hoping to use their 'Star Trek' productions as calling cards, though very little offers real bragging rights.

So many of these are made in SoCal, I keep thinking I need to find a way to get involved with the people who do some professional looking effects. 'Star Trek: Horizon' was close to the mark on look. Oh, I already know those types are a closed club. But it's fun to dream.

Well, tonight is the new 'Star Trek' on CBS. So far, so bad. 10 minutes into the block, nothing interesting has happened. So far we've seen I guess the better looking starship from the leaked info. Though not so well. The really ugly title ship Discovery hasn't shown up I think. But they didn't explain which ship this was.

It ended on the east coast 2 hours before mine began, already I can see the rest of the country hated it. But it starts with a strike for the lawsuit against the Axanar fan film production and another for actually showing a promo at a fan convention that looked bad.

I think they're just forgetting why anyone wants to watch Star Trek. They need to watch certain fan films. Such as the one below.

Oh, it got worse. Went from boring to the "Heroine" being a psychokiller. Now where did they get the idea of this out of control war mongerer as some sort of sympathetic lead character? All the trashings left that part out.

Kick down the barricades Listen what the kids say.
From time to time people change their minds But the Frock is here to stay.
I've seen it all from the bottom to the top Everywhere I go the kids wanna Frock.
Around the world or around the block Everywhere I go the kids wanna Frock.

So Irwin Allen was a Film/TV producer who was putting out some spectacular work on a budget. Such a tight budget in fact that scenes from 'The Lost World' were used in the TV 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' and Captain Crane had to get out of uniform to wear his old outfit from the earlier film.

Pity the ships of 'Lost in Space,' the ever popular Jupiter 2 and the lesser known Gemini 12. Not much resembling one another, they both appeared in the series as the Gemini 12 footage from the pilot was recycled for planet fall/crash sequences, etc. According to this the fullsize sets didn't match either one. I think their mockup for the SciFi airshow looks more like the Gemini 12 for the lack of room for a lower deck. But with the show over, Irwin Allen ordered them butchered for parts for the sets of 'City Beneath the Sea.' In the 1980's the Gemini 12 had a bad restoration and was put up at an auction. One thing Allen lacked a vision for was the memorabilia market, think of what he could have made off the two models if he'd protected them and saved them until the demand was there.

Dang, I wish this place with fullsize mockups really existed, even if they're not real spaceships it would be great for SciFi nuts like me to go inside.